Shereza
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.08.02 05:42:00 -
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I wonder how many of the "but that would be imbalanced in terms of risk vs. reward" posters apply that to changes made to or needed for PvP. The impression I get from reading this topic is that a lot of the PvP-oriented types who are whining about how much of an imbalance high-sec L5s would provide to PvE risk:reward structures would cry bloody murder if high-sec suicide ganking suddenly had real risks instead of losing a cheap, dinky ship and getting a 15 minute "go hide in the corner" timer. I also get the impression that if they would seriously **** and moan if they stood a good chance at losing their little mission ***** killer when trying to gun down PvE'ers doing missions in actual PvE fits.
Don't get me wrong, it's basic human nature at its finest, so to speak, to want to shave the dice in your favor, keep yourself top dog, and pretend that your opinion is what really matters in the world. I just think it's a hoot that there are so may PvP'ers dogpiling into the topic to raise the risk:reward flag when many if not most of them sound like they don't want to see it raised anywhere near their precious PvP.
Frankly I'm all for risk:reward, but as I said, the fact is it's basic human nature to minimize risk and maximize reward. Bringing L5s into high-sec, regardless of whether they pay out like L4s or like L5s, isn't going to change that. It won't take much or long before L5s are just as safe as L4s for the various mission runners. Also please note that I deliberately did not ascribe any indication of what degree of safety that is because it's all relative. For a three month old character they're a death trap, but for a three year old character they're generally cake. All the people who talk about how L4s are 100% risk-free have obviously been doing them for too long because they don't remember what it's like to set foot into one at 4-5 months.
Still, here's a suggestion. Bring only the anti-empire L5s into high-sec. Leave the L5s against pirate factions in low-sec. This will, so far as I know, not create any new isk in the economy while guaranteeing the "risks" associated with murdering your standings with other empires. Even at full L5 "payouts" the "reward" from doing L5s in this situation will merely be a redistribution of the isk in the game, and as such they probably won't contribute significantly to the inflation of the isk. If anything the increased influx of tags, meta drops, and salvage should decrease the costs and reduce inflation. |